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And it came to pass on [the] second-first sabbath, that he went through cornfields, and his disciples were plucking the ears and eating [them], rubbing [them] in their hands.
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But some of the Pharisees said to them, Why do ye what is not lawful to do on the sabbath?
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And Jesus answering said to them, Have ye not read so much as this, what David did when he hungered, he and those who were with him,
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how he entered into the house of God and took the shewbread and ate, and gave to those also who were with him, which it is not lawful that [any] eat, unless the priests alone?
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And he said to them, The Son of man is Lord of the sabbath also.
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And it came to pass on another sabbath also that he entered into the synagogue and taught; and there was a man there, and his right hand was withered.
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And the scribes and the Pharisees were watching if he would heal on the sabbath, that they might find something of which to accuse him.
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But *he* knew their thoughts, and said to the man who had the withered hand, Get up, and stand in the midst. And having risen up he stood [there].
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Jesus therefore said to them, I will ask you if it is lawful on the sabbath to do good, or to do evil? to save life, or to destroy [it]?
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And having looked around on them all, he said to him, Stretch out thy hand. And he did [so] and his hand was restored as the other.
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But *they* were filled with madness, and they spoke together among themselves what they should do to Jesus.
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And it came to pass in those days that he went out into the mountain to pray, and he spent the night in prayer to God.
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And when it was day he called his disciples, and having chosen out twelve from them, whom also he named apostles:
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Simon, to whom also he gave the name of Peter, and Andrew his brother, [and] James and John, [and] Philip and Bartholomew,
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[and] Matthew and Thomas, James the [son] of Alphaeus and Simon who was called Zealot,
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[and] Judas [brother] of James, and Judas Iscariote, who was also [his] betrayer;